Nat turned 26 months today and Gigi 19 months. My precocious little elder daughter (have to get used to having 2 now!), is getting vainer by the day. Wearing hats and carrying handbags at home, and asking for her sunglasses before we go out. Nick also goads her into asking me to hurry up and she'll shout from the door, "Mummy hurry up!".
No more cot for her, we converted it to the toddler bed, she sings at the top of her voice when falling asleep, especially 'Wheels on the Bus' and is in a 'Hark the Herald Angels Sing' phase.
Before I popped, she was kissing my tummy daily and now that Natasha is out, she smothers her little sister with kisses but isn't aware if she's being rough or pressing down on the baby.
She's been pretty well-behaved and compliant when it comes to the car seat now, as well as restaurant high-chairs. I have been more relaxed with her eating outside food, and she's also getting more practice at feeding herself and can drink from a cup without spilling...well most of the time anyway!
She bathes in the bathroom, no more tubs for her. Stands while she gets a shower, she and Gigi have been trained to hold the water pipe so they don't slip, plus we put in an extra non-slip mat.
She's been super sensitive to noise. Every little thud or bang, she goes, "What's that sound?" and she likes to give fake burps too and then self-reprimands by saying to herself, "Not like that!". Plus she's starting to pepper her sentences with 'lah'.
She is learning to colour and hold a crayon, but most of the time, it's just lines across the colouring book. Though she can sort of draw a circle on her magnetic doodle board, by that I mean an odd oval with the joints visible.
She still insists on being carried when we're out, poor Nick and Arlyn have to take turns lugging her 10.6kg frame around. She doesn't like walking from our home to the bus-stop but once we alight at Membina, she's fine to cross the overhead bridge etc.
At 26 months, I am amazed at her attention to detail. A week ago, she saw a grey Citroen C4 next to us at a traffic light and she kept insisting it was 'Uncle Kevin's car'. The fact that she recognised a C4, and got the colour right is amazing. And while we were at the museum last week, she saw an Ice Mountain water bottle and recognised it as the brand I drink exclusively at home and kept pointing at it on a ledge, repeating, "This mummy's water, this mummy's water!"
Gigi at 19 months though, is not as well-adjusted as Nat. I keep saying she's got 'issues', ha ha. Not only has her world been turned upside down with Mummy taken from her and moving back in with me, she's teething, she has a new maid to adjust to, she has to deal with separation anxiety from Swana when the latter goes to work, and her lack of fruit intake has led to constipation. She screams whenever she has to poop and has suffered a tear on her bum...but she still refuses to eat fruits.
She can say short 3-4 word sentences, like "I want book", "I want biscuit", she's quite independent, content to play on her own. She and Nat get very geram with each other, sometimes biting and pinching. She calls me 'Bita' and has the sweetest smile. Hope she doesn't suffer middle child syndrome with the arrival of Natasha!
No more cot for her, we converted it to the toddler bed, she sings at the top of her voice when falling asleep, especially 'Wheels on the Bus' and is in a 'Hark the Herald Angels Sing' phase.
Before I popped, she was kissing my tummy daily and now that Natasha is out, she smothers her little sister with kisses but isn't aware if she's being rough or pressing down on the baby.
She's been pretty well-behaved and compliant when it comes to the car seat now, as well as restaurant high-chairs. I have been more relaxed with her eating outside food, and she's also getting more practice at feeding herself and can drink from a cup without spilling...well most of the time anyway!
She bathes in the bathroom, no more tubs for her. Stands while she gets a shower, she and Gigi have been trained to hold the water pipe so they don't slip, plus we put in an extra non-slip mat.
She's been super sensitive to noise. Every little thud or bang, she goes, "What's that sound?" and she likes to give fake burps too and then self-reprimands by saying to herself, "Not like that!". Plus she's starting to pepper her sentences with 'lah'.
She is learning to colour and hold a crayon, but most of the time, it's just lines across the colouring book. Though she can sort of draw a circle on her magnetic doodle board, by that I mean an odd oval with the joints visible.
She still insists on being carried when we're out, poor Nick and Arlyn have to take turns lugging her 10.6kg frame around. She doesn't like walking from our home to the bus-stop but once we alight at Membina, she's fine to cross the overhead bridge etc.
At 26 months, I am amazed at her attention to detail. A week ago, she saw a grey Citroen C4 next to us at a traffic light and she kept insisting it was 'Uncle Kevin's car'. The fact that she recognised a C4, and got the colour right is amazing. And while we were at the museum last week, she saw an Ice Mountain water bottle and recognised it as the brand I drink exclusively at home and kept pointing at it on a ledge, repeating, "This mummy's water, this mummy's water!"
Gigi at 19 months though, is not as well-adjusted as Nat. I keep saying she's got 'issues', ha ha. Not only has her world been turned upside down with Mummy taken from her and moving back in with me, she's teething, she has a new maid to adjust to, she has to deal with separation anxiety from Swana when the latter goes to work, and her lack of fruit intake has led to constipation. She screams whenever she has to poop and has suffered a tear on her bum...but she still refuses to eat fruits.
She can say short 3-4 word sentences, like "I want book", "I want biscuit", she's quite independent, content to play on her own. She and Nat get very geram with each other, sometimes biting and pinching. She calls me 'Bita' and has the sweetest smile. Hope she doesn't suffer middle child syndrome with the arrival of Natasha!
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